Seed Fate: Predation, Dispersal and Seedling Establishment
Seed Fate: Predation, Dispersal and Seedling Establishment
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01568.x
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发表时间：
2006-02
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影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
D. Watson
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作者：
D. Watson
作者已经着手提供关于东北海岸流域内所有本地和引进物种的详细信息，该流域由大分水岭、珊瑚海、北方新南威尔士和约克角所界定。这本书当然符合这一目标，提供了一个全面和详细的卷鱼类在这一领域。这本书是很好的设置，并最初提供背景资料，以提供一个背景下的物种帐户，开始审查澳大利亚鱼类物种的起源。其次是所使用的分类系统的摘要，以及有关鱼类解剖和形态测量学的信息，以协助物种识别和使用的关键，包括详细的线条画的主要特点。物种的关键是清晰，简洁，易于工作通过，与详细的线条图，以澄清相关的组成部分。第三章为东北沿海流域划分提供气候信息。它还描述了作者为收集物种账户中的大部分信息而进行的研究，包括有关地点选择的信息、用于调查和量化物种丰度的方法的描述，以及为量化而收集的数据概述宏观、中观和微观栖息地的使用和结构。这些信息对于理解物种账户中的信息至关重要。物种账户分为几个关键部分。每个物种都有详细的描述，并附有线条图以帮助识别。然后概述了该物种的系统学，包括分类修订，并根据现有文献和作者的研究描述了每个物种的分布和丰度。在可能的情况下，将不同集水区物种丰度的数据制成表格，包括每个集水区内的丰度等级和生物量百分比的信息。每个物种的宏观，中观和微观生境的细节提供，再次与每个物种的测量生境变量的偏好的信息。每个物种的环境耐受性，然后审查，其次是生殖，发育和运动生物学和营养生态学。物种账户的最后一部分描述了州和联邦立法所列的每个物种的现状，并根据已知的威胁提出了适当的保护状态，并提供了管理建议。物种账户结构良好，提供了丰富的信息。然而，令人失望的是，一些物种被归类为密切相关的物种，而不是单独对待。虽然提供了每个物种的详细信息，但这必须从一个扩展的汇总帐户中梳理出来。此外，在多物种账户中通常只提供一个线条图。每个物种的标签图画可以更容易地比较特征，特别是在野外。如果不是全部的话，一些物种的彩板也会是这本书的一个很好的补充。分布图显然是缺席的。作者指出，地图没有包括在内，因为物种数据不完整，而且一些物种可能在其更广泛分布的集水区自然缺席。然而，分布图可以帮助识别和帮助目标管理行动。如果能列入显示排水分区内已知记录的地图，将是有益的。
authors have set out to provide detailed information on all native and introduced species within the northeast coast drainage division, an area bounded by the Great Dividing Range, Coral Sea, northern New South Wales and Cape York. The book certainly meets this aim, providing a comprehensive and detailed volume on fish species in this area. This book is well set out and initially provides background information to provide a context for the species accounts, beginning with a review of the origin of Australian fish species. This is followed by a summary of the classification system used, and information on fish anatomy and morphometrics to assist with species identification and use of the key, including detailed line drawings of the main features. The key to species is clear, concise and easy to work through, with detailed line drawings to clarify relevant components. The third chapter provides climatic information for the north-east coast drainage division. It also describes the studies that were undertaken by the authors to gather much of the information in the species accounts, including information on site selection, descriptions of the methods used for surveys and to quantify species abundances, and an overview of the data that were collected to quantify macro-, meso-and microhabitat use and structure. This information is essential to understand the information in the species accounts. The species accounts are split into several key sections. Each species is described in detail with a line drawing to assist identification. The systematics of the species is then outlined, including taxonomic revisions, and the distribution and abundance of each species are described, based on existing literature and the authors’ studies. Wherever possible, data on species’ abundances in different catchments are tabulated, including information on ranked abundance and percent biomass within each catchment. Details of the macro-, meso-and microhabitats of each species are provided, again with information on the preference of each species for the measured habitat variables. The environmental tolerances of each species are then reviewed, followed by reproductive, development and movement biology and trophic ecology. The final section of the species accounts describes the current status of each species as listed by state and federal legislation and recommends an appropriate conservation status based on known threats, as well as providing recommendations for management. The species accounts are well structured and provide a wealth of information. However, it was disappointing to find that some species are grouped with closely related species rather than being treated separately. Although detailed information on each species is provided, this has to be teased out of an extended, pooled account. Additionally, only one line drawing is generally provided within the multiple-species accounts. Labelled drawings of each species would have made it easier to compare features, particularly in the field. Colour plates of some, if not all, species would also have been a nice addition to this volume.Distribution maps are notably absent. The authors note that maps were not included because of incomplete data for species and as some species may be naturally absent from a catchment within their wider distribution. However, distribution maps can assist identifications and help to target management actions. It would have been beneficial to include maps showing known records within drainage divisions.